Maureen O'Hara Quotes

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

There are two words for everything.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

I am black and white.

Black implies white self implies other

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Light black. From pole to pole.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.